Archive for the ‘Happiness’ Category
Expansive Love
Monday, February 13th, 2012
When was the last time…
You danced with a flower?
You fell in love with a tree?
You sang to the stars?
You saw the good in every encounter?
You found peace in forgiving another?
You listened to the rhythm of your heart?
Every moment is an opportunity to experience expansive love. When we stop seeking (or expecting) love or approval, we can begin to love ourselves in deeper ways.
As Pema Chödrön says, “The only reason we don’t open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don’t feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else’s eyes.”
Falling in love means loving ourselves first and sharing that love with others. Go ahead, fall in love with yourself, again.
Mary Anne
Creating Love Habits
Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
Every thought becomes a habit. I want my thoughts to create more happy and peaceful habits. Do something every day that brings you more joy and more peace.
I am creating a vision for myself where what I say and do is in alignment. I am ready to create habits as a writer. When I am asked what I do, I will answer I am a writer. In a recent Poets & Writers magazine, Ellen Sussman shared her views on a writer’s daily habits. Sussman wrote, “But many of us are scared to commit to be a Writer, so we don’t commit to the job of writing. Take yourself seriously. Say you’re a writer. And if you’re a writer, figure out how to do your job.”
It’s easy to listen to the muse in your ear. The one telling you don’t have time. You don’t have enough experience. You don’t enough (fill in the blank). Find one hour every day to create your habit. Devote time for you. How you spend time is your habit. Create your love habit.
Commit yourself to more joy and peace. I am committing to being a writer. My vision is to write every day. I’m a writer – there I said it. Your turn!
Mary Anne
Harvesting You!
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
Everyone must take time and sit and watch the leaves turn.
-Elizabeth Lawrence
As we begin a new season and a new month, let us take time to welcome autumn’s alchemy. Notice what you are harvesting in your life. What are you drawing up from the Earth? What gifts are coming from the Earth for you to celebrate?
Come celebrate the harvesting of you with a shamanism weekend intensive, a forgiveness telecourse, a free meditation mojo teleclass, a retreat in Hawaii, coaching, and much more. For more information, please go to www.toningtheom.com
How will you harvest more love and peace this season?
Mary Anne
Home in the Catskills — Haiku
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
Summer vacations
When I was a little girl
Spent in the mountains
Loud Irish music
Blaring tunes till the wee hours
And last call for drinks
One sister sang songs
And one an accordion
For our proud parents
All while I sulked
Drinking a Shirley Temple
From smoky tables
Mary Anne